A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on February 12, 2025.
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The day’s through-line is simple: Trump kept calling it dealmaking, but the visible effect was strategic confusion, allied anxiety, and a lot of people wondering who exactly was setting the terms. That’s not a peace process; that’s a blender with a microphone.
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Trump said he and Vladimir Putin would begin talks on ending the Ukraine war, then spoke with Volodymyr Zelenskyy later the same day, while Pete Hegseth told NATO allies that Ukraine’s membership was not a realistic outcome. The result was a visible policy shift with no public sign of allied coordination.